• Thumbnail for Huperzia
    Huperzia is a genus of lycophyte plants, sometimes known as the firmosses or fir clubmosses; the Flora of North America calls them gemma fir-mosses. This...
    12 KB (1,122 words) - 06:50, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Huperzioideae
    Huperzia (temperate firmosses); about 25 species; terrestrial. Phlegmariurus (tropical firmosses); about 250 species; previously included in Huperzia;...
    2 KB (183 words) - 06:15, 13 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Huperzine A
    first isolated in 1983 from Huperzia serrata, a plant used in Chinese folk medicine. Huperzine A also exists in other Huperzia species, including H. elmeri...
    16 KB (1,590 words) - 18:20, 23 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Huperzia lucidula
    Huperzia lucidula (also called the shining firmoss or shining clubmoss) is a bright, evergreen, rhizomatous clubmoss of the genus Huperzia. They grow in...
    3 KB (245 words) - 19:44, 16 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Huperzia serrata
    Huperzia serrata, the toothed clubmoss, is a plant known as a firmoss. The species is native to eastern Asia (China, Tibet, Japan, the Korean peninsula...
    2 KB (126 words) - 02:51, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Huperzia selago
    Huperzia selago, the northern firmoss or fir clubmoss, is a vascular plant in the family Lycopodiaceae. It is small-ish, sturdy, stiff and upright and...
    5 KB (425 words) - 19:23, 12 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Huperzia porophila
    Huperzia porophila, the rock clubmoss or rock firmoss, grows throughout the Appalachian province of the Eastern United States and central Canada, from...
    3 KB (243 words) - 00:18, 28 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Phylloglossum
    closely related to the genus Huperzia and is a sister clade to the genus Phlegmariurus, which was formerly included in Huperzia. Morphological characters...
    5 KB (457 words) - 20:30, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phlegmariurus phlegmaria
    Phlegmariurus phlegmaria, synonym Huperzia phlegmaria, commonly known as either coarse tassel fern or common tassel fern, is an epiphytic species native...
    6 KB (534 words) - 07:58, 15 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lycopodiaceae
    Huperzioideae in PPG I, Huperzia, Phlegmariurus and Phylloglossum, have also all been treated within a broadly defined Huperzia. The species within this...
    15 KB (1,307 words) - 14:44, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Huperzia australiana
    Huperzia australiana is a species of small terrestrial plant, a firmoss, in the Lycopodiaceae (clubmoss) family. It is native to Australia and New Zealand...
    2 KB (156 words) - 00:34, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Huperzia appalachiana
    Huperzia appalachiana is a species of clubmoss. The original description is: Stems tufted to shortly decumbent (1 cm (0.39 in)), erect portions of stem...
    3 KB (263 words) - 18:44, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Phlegmariurus crassus
    Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.10. Retrieved 2019-10-14. "Huperzia crassa (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Rothm". Tropicos. Retrieved October 16...
    2 KB (61 words) - 04:49, 11 March 2021
  • Thumbnail for Lycopodiopsida
    similar could be occurring in Huperzia hypogeae gametophytes which associate with the same glomalean phenotypes as nearby Huperzia hypogeae sporophytes. Fungal...
    26 KB (2,530 words) - 13:31, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Phlegmariurus
    I), but not by some other sources, which keep it in a broadly defined Huperzia. The genus was first described in 1909 by Wilhelm Herter as the section...
    25 KB (2,202 words) - 20:49, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jeju Island
    and Paik, 2009 (a grasshopper) Martensia jejuensis Y. Lee 2004 (an alga) Huperzia jejuensis B.-Y Sun & J. Lim (a lycopodium) Lycoris chejuensis KH Tae &...
    27 KB (2,474 words) - 03:10, 4 July 2025
  • It is threatened by habitat loss. Navarrete, H.; Pitman, N. (2003). "Huperzia columnaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2003: e.T43705A10821952...
    2 KB (93 words) - 17:22, 16 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Sporophyll
    Lycopodium and related genera) or distributed singly among sterile leaves (Huperzia). Sporangia are borne in the axil or on the adaxial surface of the sporophyll...
    3 KB (326 words) - 23:45, 20 January 2025
  • occurs up to 4500 meters in altitude. Navarrete, H.; Pitman, N. (2003). "Huperzia compacta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2003: e.T43706A10822067...
    2 KB (87 words) - 03:36, 17 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Phlegmariurus dentatus
    R.; Dyer, R.; Ivanenko, Y.; Rouhan, G.; Rumsey, F.; Väre, H. (2017). "Huperzia dentata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T78672292A85432255...
    4 KB (287 words) - 04:41, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phlegmariurus squarrosus
    in other classifications, which submerge the genus in Huperzia, with this species as Huperzia squarrosa. The species has a wide distribution from the...
    4 KB (187 words) - 21:46, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Huperzia appressa
    Huperzia appressa, commonly known as Appalachian firmoss, is a non-flowering species of plant in the family Lycopodiaceae. It has been reported from the...
    2 KB (61 words) - 23:04, 18 November 2023
  • Phlegmariurus mannii, synonym Huperzia mannii, is a species of lycopod, known by the common names Mann's clubmoss and wawaeʻiole. It is endemic to Hawaii...
    3 KB (219 words) - 00:27, 28 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lycopodium
    divide Lycopodiaceae species into three broadly defined genera, Lycopodium, Huperzia (including Phylloglossum) and Lycopodiella. In this approach, Lycopodium...
    9 KB (921 words) - 22:50, 25 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lycopodielloideae
    1802. Although other genera now placed within the family (in particular Huperzia, published in 1801) had been described, until the mid-1900s, Lycopodium...
    7 KB (632 words) - 15:02, 18 February 2025
  • It is threatened by habitat loss. Navarrete, H.; Pitman, N. (2003). "Huperzia talpiphila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2003: e.T43714A10823014...
    2 KB (86 words) - 17:07, 17 November 2021
  • is threatened by grazing and fire. Navarrete, H.; Pitman, N. (2003). "Huperzia hastata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2003: e.T43709A10822402...
    2 KB (93 words) - 09:08, 17 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Traditional Chinese medicine
    leukemia treatment by the FDA in 2000. Huperzine A, an extract from the herb, Huperzia serrata, is under preliminary research as a possible therapeutic for Alzheimer's...
    225 KB (23,494 words) - 18:32, 3 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Phlegmariurus varius
    Zealand and associated islands. It has a number of synonyms including Huperzia varia. Phlegmariurus varius can grow on the ground and as a lithophyte...
    3 KB (191 words) - 06:07, 19 October 2021
  • Phlegmariurus nutans, synonym Huperzia nutans, known as wawaeʻiole or nodding clubmoss, is a species of club moss in the family Lycopodiaceae. It is endemic...
    2 KB (140 words) - 12:32, 16 January 2025